The Arizona sentinel., 1887-05-21
MAKE YouR THREAo FIRM.

The Importance of Doing Nothing by
 Halves-Have No Flaw In Your Work
 Why Captain Was Poisoned.
 If we could only learn early in life that every thing we do is of impor- tance! that there are really no tri1es! If we would only learn that every thing we do results in something that is either good or i'll! that to slight our work is to bring disaster or loss or dis grace! In book, recently published. is the following story told by the mother of two young girls, the story of whose struggles will help many girls and boys into a truer life. The mother tells the story in the twilight, after each girl has given an account of her days experience:
 My fathers last voyage was an unusually long one. but at last we could watch for his re- turn. Only my mother and I, this time, for Richard was with him; so we had double req son to look for the ship. can remember how excited was, for my father was very good to me- and always kept one corner of his big sea chest for me
 The boys in Salem used to watch on the wharf whenever ship was expected, and the
 
 of those on board with the news. nitw were a sailors wife, she gave him a quarter; If a mates, half; but from the captains wife whole dollar was expected One morning-we were at breakfast-a boy came running in, to tell us that the brig ''Cypher" was in sight. He seemed to be in great hurry, but that we did not think of till afterward.
 My mother and 1 took an old glass of fathers and went up to the attic, where we had good view of the harbor. Mother held the glass long while and grew suddenly pale. Then she said, short and quick: ''Take the glass Your eyes are younger than mine. Do you see the hagT' So I looked, and did see it. 'Oh, mother" cried, tits at half-mastr For we were sailors wife and daughter, and we knew what it meant. It said-that the captain was dead.
 It was so Bye-and-bye we learn all about it. Partly from the mate; partly, but not till long afterWdfI and 5y dSS-ees- from Richard n was on the return voyage. He was poisoned They were trading for ivory on the African coast. He had gone ashore with Richard, to settle matters with the native chief who was very friendly and offered them, as a farewell i banouet some rice and drink of cocoanut milk The poison was in one of them. Richard did not like the native style of cooking, and, boy-llxe, would not eat. They set sail, but were only a few hours of when my father was taken sick and died. Afterward It was discovered thai the captain of the last ship that had traded there had cheated them. believe there were | no holes in the colored beads that traders used | to bargain for ivory and gold dust, and, to the | natives, all white men were alike. They buried him there at sea. Richard tried to fling himself in too, and 1t was only by main force that the sailors prevented him He was only just through school, but he had begged SC hard to go on the voyage that father yielded For generations the men of our family had beeu sea-captains; but my brother never set foot on a ship again.
 Haven't told you a very cheerful story, Kitty I'm afraid it hasn't improved matters much | and mine hasn't such an excellent moral as had ! yours and Marion's.
 q can pick one out" said Marion, thought fully. If some manufacturer had not neglect 1 ed to punch holes in those beads, your father wouldn't have been murdered, nor your mother | have died, nor you have been poor and had to earn your own living. Oh mother, do you sup pose every single glass bead in the world makes ! a difierenceF
 | q think that every thread forms part And if there is a weak place in the wool it is fatally | apt to strike against the weak spot in the warp. | We can not see or know what is being woven. | But this we do know-that it concerns us to make our own thread firm and strong. and just | as fine as ever it may be-"
 Recently there was terrible rail road accident on one of the Massachu-
 setts roads. The cause of the accident
 is supposed to be due to flaw in one
 of the trusses of the bridge; imperfec.
 tion in the truss when put into the
 bridge, or a break that has
 been overlooked by the inspectors
 of the road. The result is the death of
 twenty-seven persons outright and
 many severely injured. Somebody
 did not make their thread firm and
 strong. Christian Union.